The Implications of Self-Definitions of Child Sexual Abuse for Understanding Socioemotional Adaptation in Young Adulthood.
This study examined associations between child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors' self-definition status (i.e., whether or not survivors self-identified as sexually abused) and multiple measures of psychopathology, self-system functioning, and risk behaviors. We evaluated the hypothesis that survivors wi...
| Published in: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 80 - 102 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2021
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